Broglie No. 1 / Chambrais

Noted in Turner ([ca. 1818?]): "The font is of stone, and ancient: it consists of a round basin, on a quadrangular pedestal, like many in England". The basin ia actually polygonal, quadrangular with wide chamfered angles that make it almost octagonal, with rounded underbowl that starts right below the thick upper rim, and has prominent buttresses on every other side; these buttresses continue down along the sides of the quadrangular stem [NB: this font does not seem to match Turner's description, and is certainly not typical of English fonts]. The wooden cover is flat and plain, with a flat cross on it. The label placed on the font at the church dates it to the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century.